Mission

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The Children's Burn Foundation is dedicated to providing support services for child burn survivors, ages 0-18 and their families, as well as burn prevention and fire safety education to thousands of children and caregivers in Southern California, nationally, and internationally. The Children's Burn Foundation is concerned with the Full Recovery of a child burn survivor, addressing not only their physical needs, but their psychological, emotional, and social recovery as well. We are the only known foundation that offers the Full Recovery Program for child burn survivors, locally, nationally, and internationally -- a unique blend of medical care, psycho-social support services, and daily living support to help young burn survivors achieve their full potential.

Mission

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The Children's Burn Foundation is dedicated to providing support services for child burn survivors, ages 0-18 and their families, as well as burn prevention and fire safety education to thousands of children and caregivers in Southern California, nationally, and internationally. The Children's Burn Foundation is concerned with the Full Recovery of a child burn survivor, addressing not only their physical needs, but their psychological, emotional, and social recovery as well. We are the only known foundation that offers the Full Recovery Program for child burn survivors, locally, nationally, and internationally -- a unique blend of medical care, psycho-social support services, and daily living support to help young burn survivors achieve their full potential.

Results Information

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Results Information

Charting Impact

What is your organization aiming to accomplish?

The impact of our program is measured in many ways. Primarily we see the health and scars of child burn survivors improve as they receive treatment, Many go from life threatening burn injuries to healthy productive young people. We measure the mental health of our children and families in the the support groups we have for children, adults and teens. In addition, pre and post testing is conducted in our prevention and education programs and we are able to quantify the increase in burn safety knowledge our students have,

What are your strategies for making this happen?

We have a number of strategies for implemented in support of the program areas we embrace. In our Full Recovery ares, it is vital to the program's success and the recovery of our children that we treat the whole child. recognizing that a lifelong physical change has occurred we are as dedicated to healing the spirit and mind of the child as we are the physical scars. This strategy includes support groups, private counselling and a collaboration with all the medical teams, parents and immediate family. In an effort to prevent burn injuries from ever happening we embrace a full compliment of prevention initiatives to try and reduce the number of children who get injured. We work collaboratively with the Los Angeles Unified Public School District, seeing more than 56,000 children annually. We are currently developing a burn safety/science exhibit at the California Science Center that will increase dramatically the number of children, in the most vulnerable target population, who can receive potentially life saving information. So our strategy is consistent with our mission to prevent and to heal the whole child.

What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?

We are guided by professionals in the burn world and have affiliations and are members of the American Burn Association and the International Society of Burn Institutions. Our trained health educators, accredited child life specialists and therapists work with us in our programs. The doctors and burn hospitals are accredited burn units around the untited states and we have access to many additional burn centers aroound the world. Before we connect or send a child for treatment we have the burn center and medical team carefully evaluated to insure the best care possible for the child urn survivor.

How will your organization know if you are making progress?

It is easy to see the physical progress that a burned child makes. As we monitor the children as they go back to school, participate in our camps, support groups and updated from medical professional and family we can see the progress. It is more difficult to evaluate how many children are nor getting burned because of burn education and prevention programs. It is important to note that according to the firefighters we work with, the number of fire related calls is declining and that must be in some way related.

What have and haven't you accomplished so far?

As we continue on our journey the number of children who are receiving care from the Children's Burn Foundation for medical care has grown from 14 children in 2010 to more than 550 children in 2015. The reach of our program is growing rapidly locally, nationally and internationally. Our prevention program has seen a growth during that same period from 27,000 children to 56,500 children in 2015. With the California Science Center project and an increase in fundraising the growth of our agency is assured, as the need is critical.

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The Children's Burn Foundation is dedicated to providing support services for child burn survivors, ages 0-18 and their families, as well as burn prevention and fire safety education to thousands of children and caregivers in Southern California, nationally, and internationally. The Children's Burn Foundation is concerned with the Full Recovery of a child burn survivor, addressing not only their physical needs, but their psychological, emotional, and social recovery as well. We are the only known foundation that offers the Full Recovery Program for child burn survivors, locally, nationally, and internationally -- a unique blend of medical care, psycho-social support services, and daily living support to help young burn survivors achieve their full potential.